Meditation and Addiction

There is evidence that meditation can become addictive, especially when the intention is to escape everyday life. In particular, the feeling of bliss that some experience during meditation can be addictive and can cause ‘craving’.  That feeling of bliss would qualify, I think, as an hallucination.  (Interestingly enough, meditation is also sometimes used as a technique for ameliorating other kinds of addiction.)  It may be that when meditation takes place within a form of life, say that of a zen monastery, where the everyday life of an individual makes meditation not an escape but rather a ‘deep practice’ that reflects other daily practices that are consonant with it, 'craving' does not occur.